Otra confirmación sobre el run-run reciente:
Si India compra el Rafale, muy posiblemente acabe pagando bastante más de lo que figura en la oferta inicial de Dassault, gracias a la que resultó ser el competidor más barato y ganaron el MMRCA.
Algo que es ampliamente conocido es que redujeron irrealistamente el precio para ganarlo, de lo que se quejaron los mismos contribuyentes franceses.
La semana pasada expiraba el plazo para que Dassault presentase hasta el último documento de la oferta, y no lo hicieron (como sabemos por la anterior noticia de fuente francesa, hay serias divergencias entre India y Dassault, por retornos principalmente).
Sólo hay una solución posible para mantener el coste bajo, y es que, como venimos viendo en multitud de fuentes, Francia no le dé a India ni la mitad de los retornos tecnológicos que ellos esperan, además de la posibilidad de que el precio por unidad se doble.
De todos modos, oficialmente la India dice que no cambiarán el Rafale y que simplemente las negociaciones se están alargando. Y Francia alega que es más un problema de madurez del tejido industrial aeronáutico indio que culpa francesa.
Detail lies in hidden costs
04 Sep 2012
Rafale may have won the contest for the supply of Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft to India,
but there's a strong possibility that we will end up paying far, far more than the bid amount. It appears that Rafale had quoted an unrealistically low amount to win the contractAfter Rafale won India’s Multi-Role Fighter aircraft contest in February this year and
the deadline given to its manufactures Dassault to submit the final documents expired last week, one would think that having no international orders since its first flight 21 years back, Dassault would have bent over backwards and produced the required documentation in time.
But nothing was submitted. Behind this simple lapse lies a very complex story — one that should make every Indian taxpayer pay much more attention to how the Defence Ministry spends its money.
The Rafale story has just one ending: India will not receive even half the technology that was promised by Dassault in the company’s “100 per cent” claim, and the cost of the plane is likely to escalate by well over 100 per cent, by conservative estimates.
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The deciding factor that won the Rafale the competition was its lower cost. Even a cursory glance at the Rafale’s costing for the French Senate done in 2009 indicated a unit price 2.25 times of what the French quoted us, not factoring in inflation. Now given that all this knowledge was public, when quality control is highly suspect,
when your grocer sells you ‘premium basmati’ at 1/3rd the market price, it takes a real specimen to not step back and ask, “Why”? http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnists/ ... costs.html